<p>Mangaluru taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelan will be held at Govinda Dasa College in Surathkal on January 23.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Briefing reporters here on Saturday, District Kannada Sahitya Parishat president Pradeep Kumar Kalkura said that writer and professor H Ramesh Kedilaya will preside over the meet. Corporator Prathibha Kulai will inaugurate the cultural procession. Writer and theatre artiste Geetha Surathkal will inaugurate the meet. Vidyadayini Sangha secretary M Venkatrao will inaugurate the book exhibition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Various sessions and student poets meet will be held. In "Nanna Jeevana Patha Anubhava Kathana" programme, theatre artiste Sarojini Shetty and Yakshagana Bhagavatha Agari Raghuram will share their experiences.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Writer Vamana Idya will deliver the valedictory address. Achievers in various fields namely Yaji Niranjan Bhat (religious), H U Ananthaiah (theatre), T K Hussain (literature), John Kennedy, Shankat Shetty (education and agriculture), prof Giridhar Hathwar (education), Suvasini Babbukatte (social service) and Jenny Bai Bengre (organiser) will be felicitated.</p>
<p>Mangaluru taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelan will be held at Govinda Dasa College in Surathkal on January 23.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Briefing reporters here on Saturday, District Kannada Sahitya Parishat president Pradeep Kumar Kalkura said that writer and professor H Ramesh Kedilaya will preside over the meet. Corporator Prathibha Kulai will inaugurate the cultural procession. Writer and theatre artiste Geetha Surathkal will inaugurate the meet. Vidyadayini Sangha secretary M Venkatrao will inaugurate the book exhibition.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Various sessions and student poets meet will be held. In "Nanna Jeevana Patha Anubhava Kathana" programme, theatre artiste Sarojini Shetty and Yakshagana Bhagavatha Agari Raghuram will share their experiences.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Writer Vamana Idya will deliver the valedictory address. Achievers in various fields namely Yaji Niranjan Bhat (religious), H U Ananthaiah (theatre), T K Hussain (literature), John Kennedy, Shankat Shetty (education and agriculture), prof Giridhar Hathwar (education), Suvasini Babbukatte (social service) and Jenny Bai Bengre (organiser) will be felicitated.</p>